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NEW ORLEANS —New Orleans once again makes a list of America’s top cities.
A report by Bloomberg Rankings ranks the New Orleans area, in­cluding neighbors Metairie and Kenner, as No. 2 on a list of “Top 12 American Boomtowns.”
The list is a ranking of the fastest-growing cities in the U.S. betwe...

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services announced plans to provide $150 million to community health centers to assist in getting uninsured Americans prepared for the Oct. 1 opening of the Health Care Marketplace.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (NNPA) — When international icon and former political prisoner Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994, it marked a watershed moment for the former minority-ruled country. Mandela, t...

WASHINGTON (NNPA) —For Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of Malcolm X, trouble seemed to come easy.
His troubles began in 1997, when at age 12 he plead guilty to setting fire to the apartment of his grandmother, Betty Shabazz, that resulted in her death in New York. As a result, young Malcolm spent four years in juvenile detention...

  WILMINGTON, N.C. —Seventeen people, including eight ministers, civil rights leaders, and students, were arrested for a prayerful protest at the state legislature in Raleigh on Monday.
They promise to return again.
The activists were handcuffed and taken to jail while they sang and prayed in front of the locke...

     According to a new research report, America’s racial wealth gaps will persist until public policy reforms provide every family the opportunity to build wealth.
Less than Equal: Racial Disparities in Wealth Accumulation, from the Urban Institute’s Opportunity and Ownership project, ana...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — To the retired police officer in Brooklyn, the news was shocking, virtually impossible to comprehend.
“We were at a meeting of the Caribbean Law Enforcement Officers Association about a week ago and she was her usual quiet self,” recalled Leroy Hutchinson, a Bajan who left the New York Police D...

WASHINGTON (NNPA) —Blacks have fallen behind in their efforts to reach parity with Whites in several key areas since 2010, according to the National Urban League’s new “State of Black America” report.
Each year, the report computes an Equality Index for economics, health, education, social justice, and ci...

NEW ORLEANS — Pay no attention to that shocking video of drinking, drugging, gambling, and gun play at the House of Detention you’ve all seen in the past week. Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman investigated the matter and determined there was not enough hard evidence to sustain a legal case against the inmates seen in th...

 

MEMPHIS — A billing for the evening read: “Mountaintop Speech Commemoration.” It was a summons to gather back at Mason Temple, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his last oration – often simply called “The Mou...

 
WASHINGTON (NNPA) —There wasn’t much good news for any of the worker groups in the March jobs report, released last week. Even though, the unemployment rate fell to 7.6 percent, most economists agree that the drop is attributable to nearly half a million workers exiting the labor force.
“The unemp...

MIAMI —For the first time in nearly 40 years, the number of state prisoners in the U.S. has declined. Data compiled by The Pew Center on the States indicates that as of Jan. 1, 2010, there were 1,404,053 persons under the jurisdiction of state prison authorities. The decrease, which is the first year-to-year drop in the state pri...

MADISON — The Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA) has officially unveiled the WHEDA Tax Advantage, a Mortgage Credit Certificate Program (MCC). Under this unique program, qualifying home buyers can claim a tax credit against their federal income tax liability of up to $2,000 a year. The credit is availabl...

 
 One of the worst ironies of the nagging economic recession is that consumers with the fewest financial resources have lost the most. Now, a new report finds that payday loans not only strip much-needed income from low-income families, but harms the economic viability of the communities where they operate, draining n...

WASHINGTON  (IPS/GIN) — Since the 2008 financial crisis, and most recently with the broad federal spending cuts beginning Mar. 1, experts have warned that an austerity-minded political system could bring about dramatic changes in the U.S. foreign aid model.
A significant part of this conversation has focused on shifti...

WASHINGTON (NNPA) — Many of the students at Harvard School of Excellence in the Inglewood neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side are the same age as the 20 first- and second-graders who were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

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Blacks have fewer incidences of thyroid cancer but have a more advanced form of the disease once they receive a diagnosis — and are more likely to die from it.
The mortality rate is probably due to an access to care issues. It has been found that Blacks had a 1 percent higher mortality rate, though thyroid cancer i...

WASHINGTON  (IPS/GIN) —  A major audit of the United States’ flagship global anti-HIV/AIDS program, prepared for the U.S. Congress, notes “remarkable progress” over the past decade. However, it also warns of insufficient monitoring and urges a stepped-up process of handing over greater control to partn...

WASHINGTON  (IPS/GIN) —  For the first time, a U.S. government auditor has added climate change to a list of issues that pose the greatest financial risk to the government and country. It is also warning that Washington is markedly unprepared to deal with the scope of the problem.
The admonitions, coming amidst a...

WASHINGTON  (IPS/GIN) —  A months-old national campaign to convince U.S. colleges, universities and city governments to withdraw investments from the world’s largest oil and gas companies has seen some notable initial successes.
Last week, a city supervisor in San Francisco introduced resolutions calling on...

WASHINGTON (NNPA) — Thursday, Feb. 7, will be observed as National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. And according to activists, there is plenty that African Americans need to observe.
There are more than 1.1 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States, including more than $510,000 African-Americans.
...

 

WASHINGTON (NNPA) — For 97 years, the Association for the Study for African American Life and History has been commemorating the accomplishments of African Americans through Black History celebrations.
In 1915, Carter G. Woodson f...

The U.S. Census Bureau has released the following figures about Black America to coincide with African American History Month. If found them interesting enough to share.

Population
• 43.9 million
The number of Blacks, either alone or in combination with one or more other races, on Jul...

WASHINGTON  (IPS/GIN) —  The research arm of the U.S. Congress is warning that U.S. corporations’ use of tax havens has risen substantially in recent years, with companies offering massively inflated profit reports from small countries with loose tax regulations.
“Ample evidence of a significa...

LAS VEGAS — President Obama is pledging to negotiate with Congress on immigration legislation, but he is also working with another group: voters.

Obama flew more than 2,000 miles Jan. 29 to make his immigration pitch, visiting a politically ...

WASHINGTON (NNPA) — The Great Recession has had its greatest impact on African Americans, who saw their net wealth decrease at a rate more than four times faster than whites, according to a recent report by United for a Fair Economy, a Boston-based research group that advocates for economic equality, Black families are losing gro...

WASHINGTON  (IPS/GIN) — In a letter to President Barack Obama, the National Coalition of Black Veterans Organizations (NCBVO) asks that during the celebration of Black History Month in February — a presidential proclamation be issued that elevates legendary Buffalo Soldier Col. Charles Young to the honorary rank of Bri...

WASHINGTON (NNPA) — Rejecting calls for him to move closer toward his Republican critics, a confident President Barack H. Obama kicked off his second term on Monday by making an impassioned plea for a more inclusive America.

I’ve always disliked the way Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday is often celebrated.
The reasons why became even clearer to me these past few days, as the importance of considering King’s life and work was juxtaposed against t...

WASHINGTON  (IPS/GIN) — Activists and watchdog groups across the United States unveiled a new national push on Thursday to urge policymakers to roll back a controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision that led to the unprecedented spending of about 6 billion dollars, much of it untraceable, during recent national elections.

 WASHINGTON  (IPS/GIN) — Civil society actors and the some corporate groups here are reacting with excitement to indications that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which regulates the country’s stock exchanges, is likely to take up discussion over new rules that would mandate the public disclosure...

     WASHINGTON (NNPA) —A recent study reports that treating substance abusers, especially African Americans, could save the nation billions of dollars at a time when all eyes are glued to debates over how to solve the country’s national debt.
The study by researchers at Meharry Medical Co...

WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) — The year was 1967 and Aretha Franklin’s new single “Respect” was a big hit. But respect was sorely lacking in Black neighborhoods as summer riots erupted in Newark, Detroit and other cities.
It’s also the year that FBI head J. Edgar Hoover sent this communiqué: “T...

 WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) — A new report just released by The Sentencing Project, a Washington, D.C., based nonprofit that advocates for prison reform, shows that in at least thirteen states there had been enough of a decline in the state prison population to begin closing some facilities.
The study shows specialty courts...

 WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) — Underlining the persistent power of their party’s most right-wing elements, a majority of Republican senators  last week blocked ratification of the long-pending International Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities (CRPD).
Sen. John McCain, who suffered life-crippling ...

Stephen Manley, 36, is not your typical Black male.
Not only does Manley have a bachelor’s degree in Legal Studies from the University of Houston-Clear Lake, he also carries a Masters of Business Administration with an emphasis on Information Technology from Western Governors University in Salt Lake City, Utah.

 
WASHINGTON (NNPA) —Although Black and Latina youth represent only 35 percent of all U.S. teenagers, they accounted for 84.4 percent of all newly HIV-infected teenagers in 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Blacks ages 13 through 24 accounted for more than a quarter of new HIV i...

WASHINGTON (NNPA) — As millions of families gather for marathon eating sessions across the nation this holiday season, Black families will worry about where their next meal is coming from at a rate that is twice that of Whites, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
While the national rate for food insecu...

 WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) — The U.S. Senate approved a new round of economic sanctions against Iran Friday, ignoring warnings by the White House that the additional measures could prove counter-productive to the goal of persuading Iran to curb its nuclear program.
The 94-0 vote, which was immediately praised by the powerf...

NEW YORK — Good Morning America (GMA) talk show co-host Robin Roberts returned home for Thanksgiving Day after a virus following her bone marrow transplant landed her back in the hospital.
Roberts, who received the bone marrow transplant from sister, Sally-Ann Roberts, said the latent virus was causing her no pain, and was...

 
WASHINGTON (NNAP) — After hearing oral arguments earlier on whether an affirmative action program at the University of Texas is constitutional, the United States Supreme Court has agreed to review a challenge to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, paving the way for the court to rule on two major civil rights issues by n...

WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) — Despite a bitterly and closely fought presidential campaign fuelled by record financial backing, analysts sifting through Tuesday’s national election results here are forecasting a period of introspection for the opposition Republican Party that could ease the gridlock that has gummed up Washington po...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (NNPA) – Revelations about former Assistant New Hanover County District Attorney James “Jay” Stroud Jr.’s racial jury gerrymandering, and his plot to cause a mistrial to impanel a “KKK” type jury in the Wilmington Ten case forty years ago were “stunning and beyond outra...

WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) —In 1998, the Defense Department vetoed a delegation of prominent U.S. nuclear specialists to go to Iran to investigate its nuclear program at the invitation of the government of newly-elected Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, according to the nuclear scientist who was organizing the mission.
Then Pr...

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Slightly more than half of all Americans — 51 percent — express anti-Black attitudes, an increase of 3 percent over the past four years, making it more difficult for President Barack Obama to win n...

During the past year, as my columns have been syndicated to more outlets throughout the world, I have been asked by many leaders in the Republican Party why I am so critical of our party.  The short answer is that I am very concerned about the direction my party is taking.  It has increasingly become the party of old,...

When Americans go to the polls on Nov. 6, support for President Obama will remain virtually unchanged among Black voters, some experts predict.
“I think Black support for Obama would be the same,” according to David Bositis, senior analyst at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington-based thi...

 ST LOUIS —  Former Secretary of State Colin Powell broke with the Republican party during the 2008 election, to endorse then-candidate Barack Obama for president, calling Obama a “transformational figure.”
Less than two weeks before the presidential election, Powell publicly endorsed Presiden...

 
WASHINGTON (NNPA)  — The Department of Justice will spend $6.6 billion this year to stack drug dealers, addicts, shooters, and illegal immigrants like Lego blocks in prisons that are overcrowded, understaffed and barely safe, according to ...

 

What starts off as teasing and name-calling in middle school can lead to dating violence later in middle school and in high school.  Adults as well as younger people are frequently unaware of this trend.
Likewise, many are not tun...

  It was Day Two of the DC Hunger Solutions [DCHS] Food Stamp Challenge, an attempt by participants to eat on $30 a week. Council member Mary Cheh [D-Ward 3] thought the challenge would be cinch because she doesn't drink coffee or juices, and doesn't eat meat, which is pricey.
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NEW ORLEANS — A sobering independent study commissioned by local officials that was released this month pans the New Orleans justice system as a disparate array of political fiefdoms that are charged with working together but often fail to do so in a manner that produces trackable results; is hobbled by outdated technolog...

HOUSTON — She is remembered across the world as the woman who was “sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
On October 5, hundreds came from across the United States to remember Fannie Lou Hamer, a tireless civil rights advocate during her lifetime, at the unveiling of a statue built in her honor in her...

Blacks and Latinos are solidly in the corner of President Barack Obama in the upcoming elections.
In 2008, 96 percent of Blacks and 67 percent of Latinos voted for Obama. He’s going to need that support again on Nov. 6 to beat back the challenge of Mitt Romney, in a race that’s too close to call.
The significa...

WASHINGTON (NNPA) — After receiving poor marks for his performance in his nationally televised debate with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, President Obama received a much-needed boost from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ report showing that unemployment fell to 7.8 percent in September, the lowest it ha...

 
WASHINGTON (NNPA) — When Kimberly Higginbotham was 23 years old, she received some devastating news.
It was January. Higginbotham was in her last year of graduate school for physical therapy at Howard University, but she wasn’t feeling the same excitement as her peers. Instead, she was worried about the...

WASHINGTON(IPS/GIN) — A top United Nations official has presented the first ever international investigation into the situation of indigenous peoples in the United States, urging the adoption of new policies and mechanisms to “address persistent deep-seeded problems related to historical wrongs, failed policies of the past ...

WASHINGTON (NNPA) —Blacks 18 to 29 years-old pay more to get out of jail than Whites and Latinos in a system that costs taxpayers more than $9 billion annually, a recent study shows.
In “Bail Fail: Why the U.S. should end the practice of using money for bail,” the Justice Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-ba...

ROCKFORD, Ill. — International Day of Peace, set for Thursday, Sept. 21, represents a movement to unite the global community in a day of nonviolence.
World leaders Kofi Anan, the Dalai Lama and others acknowledged that one day of peace would permit children and families to leave war-torn areas, permit medical and food supp...

 WASHINGTON (NNPA) — In a private discussion with millionaire donors, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney stereotyped those who voted for President Obama in 2008 as “victims” who want and expect a free ride from the federal government.
The surreptitiously recorded video of Romney’s unusuall...

PHILADELPHIA —During an angry and vocal rally held outside of the Municipal Services Building last week, members of the NAACP, several union representatives, clergy, state and city legislators took turns commenting on the Pennsylvania Voter ID law.
The rally, which was hosted by the NAACP, took place before the state Supre...

WASHINGTON  (IPS/GIN) — Five thousand miles couldn’t stop Vernelle Dickerson from paying her respects to one of the most influential men in her life. A South Carolina native, Dickerson remembers the harsh conditions she and countless African Americans faced daily growing up in the Jim Crow South.
So when...

Many believe Chavis Carter was murdered. So while authorities may be content with their findings, Black America is not.
The coroners’ report is back and they have agreed with the incredible assertion of the Jonesboro Police De...

WASHINGTON (NNPA) — No one can creditably deny the burden of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Black community. Although Blacks represent only 12 percent or the U.S. population, they accounted for 44 percent of all new HIV infections.  Black women accounted for 57 percent of all new HIV infections among women and 64 perce...

 


Long before a little-known Illinois politician ran for president, the mainstream media focused on his race. When he flourished as a presidential candidate four years ago, everyone in America knew that Barack Obama was Black.
H...

 
Long before a little-known Illinois politician ran for president, the mainstream media focused on his race. When he flourished as a presidential candidate four years ago, everyone in America knew that Barack Obama was Black.
Have his blackness and extensive coverage of that fact boosted his political career or made...

Organizers of the Nation of Islam’s 17th anniversary of the Million Man March met Charlotte community leaders to discuss issues important to African Americans.


Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan will keynote the 17th anni...

WASHINGTON  (IPS/GIN) — Deportation is a devastating experience for a family, breaking it apart and leading to emotional and mental stress for its members. But a new report from the Centre for American Progress shows that such duress extends beyond families and into the larger community as a whole.
The report,...

Support for voter identification laws is strongest among Americans who harbor negative sentiments toward African Americans is a key revelation in a new National Agenda Opinion Poll by the University of Delaware’s Center for Political Communication.
Voter ID laws require individuals to show government issued identif...

WASHINGTON  (IPS/GIN) — With less than three months to go before the U.S. presidential election, Barack Obama’s Republican challenger for the presidency, Mitt Romney, finally announced his vice-presidential running mate, a young member of Congress named Paul Ryan.
At the announcement, on Saturday, Ryan p...

 
GREENSBORO, N.C. (NNPA) — They come from all walks of the civil and human rights struggle, each a distinguished leader with a long record of advocacy, molded in courage, and sacrifice. Ministers, activists, poets, former elected officials, retired military, disciples of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and even the form...

WASHINGTON — Seven years after a series of high-profile murder cases in the wake of 2005’s Hurricane Katrina involving the New Orleans Police Department rocked the nation, the U.S. Department of Justice took steps toward reforming the troubled agency. A federally mandated plan to rid the NOPD of corruption, discrimination, ...

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Nearly 6 million former prisoners –1 million of them Black – will not be able to vote in the November presidential election because of state laws that continue to punish them even after they have completed their sentences, according to a recent report by the Sentencing Project.
The r...

Blacks and Latinos support financial reform more than any other group, according to a new poll released by Lake Research Partners. When consumers were asked if Wall Street caused the financial crisis, eight out of 10 African-Americans agreed. Sixty-five percent of Latinos agreed, compared to an overall rate of 64 percent.
...

WASHINGTON  (IPS/GIN) - Against the backdrop of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, a panel of United States government officials and experts called for stronger methods to prevent modern-day genocides and mass atrocities, particularly in the case of Syria.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the highest-ranking gov...

WASHINGTON (NNPA) — As Washington, D.C. hosts the 2012 International AIDS Conference, residents in the nation’s capital continue to battle epidemic levels of HIV/AIDS.
According to a report released by the District’s Department of Health, the prevalence rate – or the proportion of cases within a g...

Are you middle-class?  One way to know this for sure is through homeownership.
Unfortunately, for many Blacks, the American Dream of homeownership is quickly fading. Among racial demographic groups, European Americans have the highest homeownership rate, while African Americans have the lowest. After peaking at 50 p...

Today, 50 million Americans are 18-29 years-old. Often referred to as Generation Next or the “millennials,” this generation is the most diverse in American history:  61 percent White, 19 percent Hispanic and 14 percent Black. By comparison Generation X (born between 1970-1978) is 71 percent White, 13 per...

WASHINGTON (NNPA) — It was about time. More than 60 years after 20,000 African-American men donned United States Marine Corps uniforms and trained at the legendary Montford Point Marine Corps facility in Jacks...

Many states are failing to provide public schools with the resources they need to serve all students equitably, and Florida and North Carolina doing a particularly poor job in addressing educational disparities caused by concentrated poverty.
That’s among the findings of a new report from the Educational Law Center...

 WASHINGTON  (IPS/GIN) —Following what many regard as a disappointment at the recent Rio+20 Earth Summit, the World Bank and several groups have begun implementing new initiatives to “personalize” climate change, in hopes of revitalizing the issue among the younger generation.
Last week, a Wor...

ATLANTA (NNPA) — A panel discussion at the National Newspaper Publishers Association annual convention titled, “Get Out the Vote” should have been renamed, “Get Out the Anger” as Black newspaper owners expressed their strong displeasure over the Obama administration’s failure to accommodate t...

America’s criminal justice system today amounts to tougher laws, longer sentences, harsher conditions and little oversight. Advocates say there is a combination of almost unlimited power and too little transparency.
Problems range from depriving inmates of religious literature and denying religious practices to denial of m...

 
Ambassador Andrew Young (center) accepts Legacy Award from NNPA Chairman Cloves Campbell, Jr. (left) and Xernona Clayton (right).


ATLANTA (NNPA) — Former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young and Danny J...

 WASHINGTON  (IPS/GIN) —President Barack Obama’s administration recently announced  that the United States would no longer deport certain young immigrants.
While the move, made by executive order, was hailed by immigration advocates as a small but positive first step, many others pointed to the...

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When 6-year-old Simaya Hammonds ditched Dora the Explorer for tween-fare found on the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon, her mom, Tahneezia Hammonds wasn’t surprised.
The precocious first grader enjoys “Shake It Up” on the Disney Channel and “Victorious,” a show about ...

 
WASHINGTON (NNPA) — For the past three decades, crime in the United States has been declining. The murder rate, for example, has fallen by almost half, from 9.8 per 100,000 in 1991 to 5.0 in 2009. Robberies were down 10 percent in 2010 from the previous year. Yet, there is a steady drumbeat from liberals and conserv...

Working parents are already lining up child care plans for the summer. While they’re at it, educators say all parents of school-age children should also plan for preventing the dreaded summer slide.
“The ‘summer slide’ is the information and skills children forget during summer break from the end of one s...

After more than a decade in decline, the United States teen pregnancy has been rising in recent years.
According to momlogic.com, the estimated public cost for teen pregnancy in the United States is between $6 and $9 billion a year. Eighty percent of teen moms are on some form of public assistance. Seven out of 10 teen m...

It’s a very long way from Yazoo City, Mississippi to the Halls of Congress, State Houses, City Halls and the White House, but Bishop H.H. Brookins has been there, “an don dat.” He has traveled that path and has gone the distance. Along the way, he has touched the lives of other bishops, ministers, mayors, gove...

The right to self-defense is human nature and a fundamental principle of law.
But with a harsh prison sentence handed to a Black mother and the upcoming trial of an elderly Black man — both declared ineligible to claim Florida’s Stand Your Ground law — the truth remains that in America the right to self...

Rev. Marvin Winans

The Rev. Marvin Winans’ remark, “I refuse to be afraid of us,” in the wake of the robbery attack on him by four young Black men at a neighborhood gas station on Linwood and Davison...

WASHINGTON (NNPA) — The woman selling you lottery tickets at 7-11 could be an engineer with multiple degrees. The guy bagging your groceries may have earned a six-figure salary in the not-too-distant past. Welcome to underemployment, the new norm in America.
As of April, there are nearly 8 million adults in this co...

ATLANTA, Georgia,   (IPS/GIN) — A coalition of advocacy groups is denouncing corporate support for the right-wing Heartland Institute after the organization put up a controversial billboard in Chicago that links the belief in global warming with serial killing and mass murder.
On Tuesday, the coalition protested ...

It’s as dependable as the rise and ebb of the tides.
If a national election is near, then it’s time to cast doubt on the commitment of blacks and Latinos to turn out to vote. Despite their steady level of participation over the last two dec...

NASHVILLE — The foreclosure, neighborhood blight and natural disaster crises are having a disproportionate impact on minority communities, and minority-owned real estate businesses across the nation. As a result of these concerns, the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB®), the oldest African American trade asso...

WASHINGTON (NNPA) — When she graduated from the University of Iowa two years ago with a major in elementary education, Amber Newman envisioned standing in front of a class of bright, energetic youngsters and providing them with the solid educational base that would help them become successful in the upper grades as well as later ...

In an historic decision, a North Carolina judge reduced an inmate’s death sentence to life without the possibility of parole because the prosecutor had deliberately exclude...

Trayvon Martin

WASHINGTON (NNPA) — Two investigators working for Florida Special Prosecutor Angela Corey in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin have filed court documents saying George Zimmer...

Dr. Mads Gilbert, professor of medicine at the University of North Norway

“You are being lied to. Your media does not tell the realities on the ground,” states Dr. Mads Gilbert, flatly. “It's not shown in a truly jou...

It’s up to the U.S. Supreme Court to do the right thing for all the people: give them justice in the form of universal healthcare.
In his first month in office, President Barack Obama said, “Health care reform cannot wait, it must not wa...

WASHINGTON — Health disparities are creating economic burdens for families, communities and the nation’s health care system. Across the country, infant mortality and chronic diseases continue to affect people of color at rates far higher than those for whites.
In recent years, the focus has increased on the i...

President Barack Obama holds a slim lead in Pennsylvania, according to a new poll, which also gave the president a bigger edge in two other important swing states, Florida and Ohio.
“Obama is on a roll in the key swing states. If the elec...

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan

A Republican-proposed federal budget for the 2013 fiscal year that would cut taxes for the wealthy, restructure Medicare, and slash federal spending cleared the House of Repres...

 
Late last year, America’s homeownership rate dropped to 66 percent, the lowest since 1998. Amid continuing foreclosures and short sales, millions of former proud homeowners now find the cost of their American Dream financially out of reach. For many displaced by foreclosures, rental housing has become a long-term ho...

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – On the night of Feb. 26, Tracy Martin and his girlfriend had gone out to dinner in Sanford, Fla., leaving his 17-year-old son, Trayvon, behind at the townhouse with plans to watch the NBA All-Star game scheduled to be televise...

To combat the high toll of HIV and AIDS among Black women in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched Take Charge. Take the Test., a new campaign to increase HIV testing and awareness among African-American women.
The campaign which features advertising, a website and community outreac...

Latino youth receives unmatched leadership development from nationally recognized internship program

 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI), the nation’s premier Hispanic youth leadership development and educational organization, is hosting Linda Gome...

  
President Barack Obama speaks to publishers who were in the nation's capital to celebrate NNPA's annual Black Press Week.

WASHINGTON (NNPA) — President Barack Obama expressed admiration for the balanced pi...

Seventeen year old high school student, Trayvon Martin, was recently shot and killed by a white neighborhood watch vigilante in Sanford, Florida.

JUSTICE DEMANDED IN THE DEATH OF TRAYVON MARTIN  by Marc H. Morial

The “State of the Black Press” round table and luncheon held at the National Press Club during this year’s Black Press Week in Washington, DC highlighted the need for black publishers to migrate to more widely sourced digital platforms in order to expand their readership and survive in this era of online news. The Nat...